# The best films about the Pinochet dictatorship

From It's Raining on Santiago and Missing to Imagen latente, Machuca, No and The Battle of Chile: the films about Chile's coup and dictatorship recommended by BioBioChile and La Izquierda Diario.

- 525 votes · 13 items
- Nov 1, 2023 · guitarrero_veracruz
- https://even.best/en/l/4569/the-best-films-about-the-pinochet-dictatorship

## Top 13

1. **No (2012)** (48 · ▲50 ▼2) — Pablo Larraín. Gael García Bernal and the 'No' campaign in the 1988 referendum.
2. **Missing (1982)** (46 · ▲54 ▼8) — Costa-Gavras. An American father searches for his son, missing after the coup. Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3. **Machuca (2004)** (40 · ▲44 ▼4) — Andrés Wood. Two boys from opposite classes in 1973 Santiago.
4. **The Battle of Chile (1975)** (39 · ▲44 ▼5) — Patricio Guzmán. Three-part documentary on the Allende government and the coup.
5. **Death and the Maiden (1994)** (27 · ▲31 ▼4) — Roman Polanski. A woman believes she recognises her torturer, from Ariel Dorfman's play.
6. **It's Raining on Santiago (1976)** (27 · ▲31 ▼4) — Helvio Soto. The 1973 coup, shot in exile.
7. **Imagen latente (1988)** (25 · ▲33 ▼8) — Pablo Perelman. A photographer searches for his disappeared brother in 1983 Chile. Banned by the regime.
8. **Dialogue of Exiles (1975)** (24 · ▲30 ▼6) — Raúl Ruiz. Chilean exiles in Paris.
9. **Cicatriz (1996)** (24 · ▲30 ▼6) — Sebastián Alarcón. The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front's attempt on Pinochet's life.
10. **Los hijos de la Guerra Fría (1986)** (16 · ▲28 ▼12) — Gonzalo Justiniano. The generation that grew up under the dictatorship.
11. **Nostalgia for the Light (2010)** (14 · ▲22 ▼8) — Patricio Guzmán. Astronomers and mothers searching for their disappeared in the Atacama Desert.
12. **Spider (2019)** (10 · ▲20 ▼10) — Andrés Wood. Three members of Patria y Libertad, between 1973 and the present.
13. **Sexto A 1965 (1985)** (9 · ▲20 ▼11) — A retired music teacher, played by Roberto Parada, witnesses the arrest of a former pupil.

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